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SEN Support in Bali 2026: A Directory for Families
A 2026 directory-style guide to SEN support pathways for international families in Bali: school roles, tutoring boundaries and how to seek clinical assessment without confusion.
How to use this directory
Special educational needs support in Bali is a landscape, not a single office. International schools differ in what they can offer; clinical services sit outside the school gate; tutors sit in the educational middle.
This guide is for orientation, not diagnosis. We are tutors, not clinicians. Verify current services and school policies directly.
If the terminology is new to you: SEN stands for special educational needs, a broad term covering difficulties with learning, communication, behaviour, or physical and sensory development that call for support beyond ordinary classroom teaching. It is a description of need, not a diagnosis, and many children with SEN need support only for a season.
One honest caveat about directories: a list of provider names implies a level of verification we cannot honestly claim for services we do not run. Rather than publish unverified listings, this page explains how to evaluate any provider yourself, and links only to services we operate and to external guidance documents.
Assessment and educational psychology
If you have concerns about your child’s learning, the first step is usually a conversation with the class teacher or the school’s learning-support coordinator. Schools typically screen and put in-class support in place first; formal identification of conditions such as dyslexia or dyscalculia is then carried out by a qualified psychologist through a psycho-educational evaluation combining history, questionnaires and several hours of individual testing.
Families in Bali typically access such assessments privately or through referral networks at their schools, and some arrange assessments during home leave. Ask any assessor about their qualifications, the tests they use, and whether their reports are formatted for school accommodations and exam access arrangements.
Expect a proper evaluation to take time: a parent interview, a review of school records, questionnaires for teachers and parents, and testing sessions often spread over several days. Be cautious of any service offering a diagnosis from a single short appointment.
Occupational and speech therapy
Occupational therapists support the physical and organisational demands of school: handwriting, motor coordination, sensory regulation and daily routines. Speech and language therapists support communication, from speech sounds to understanding and using language. Both are clinical professions distinct from tutoring.
When evaluating a therapist, ask about registration or licensure in their profession, experience with your child’s age and profile, and how they coordinate with schools. Occupational therapists do not diagnose conditions such as dyslexia or developmental coordination disorder; diagnosis sits with doctors and psychologists.
Costs and availability vary across the island and change between years, so we do not quote provider prices here. Ask each provider for a written fee schedule and a proposed plan with review dates before committing to a block of sessions.
In-school support and shadow teachers
A shadow teacher is an educator who supports one child inside the classroom during the school day: cueing attention, breaking tasks into steps and helping the child take part in ordinary lessons. Related roles include classroom assistants, who support more generally, and inclusion teachers, who help a school adapt teaching for a child.
All in-school arrangements need the school’s agreement and a written scope: which lessons, which responsibilities, and how progress is reviewed. Good in-school support plans its own withdrawal from the start.
Schools differ in how they host external professionals. Some welcome shadow arrangements readily; others prefer their own staff to provide in-class support. Ask early, and treat the school’s view as a partner’s view rather than an obstacle.
Schools differ in how they host external professionals. Some welcome shadow arrangements readily; others prefer their own staff to provide in-class support. Ask early, and treat the school’s view as a partner’s view rather than an obstacle.
In-home tutoring
In-home learning-support tutoring is our own service: one-to-one teaching at your home or villa for children with SEN, focused on study strategies, structure, subject skills and confidence. Tutors work from a written brief, send a note after every session and a progress summary every four weeks, and coordinate with the school where the family agrees.
We are tutors, not clinicians: we do not diagnose or treat, and tutoring complements but never replaces clinical assessment or therapy. We never guarantee specific outcomes for any child.
Sessions take place at your home or villa, in the afternoon, evening or weekend hours that suit school-age children, with travel arrangements confirmed in writing. You receive the tutor’s profile before the first session, and the first session is refunded in full if you tell us within 48 hours that it was not right.
Support by need
For detail on how supportive tutoring approaches specific profiles, these pages explain what each involves and where its boundaries sit.
Each linked page describes the supportive-teaching approach for that profile and states plainly where tutoring ends and clinical care begins. If your child’s profile spans several of these, as many do, a discovery call is the fastest route to a sensible plan.
- Anxiety and school refusal support
- Auditory processing support
- Behavioural support
- Cerebral palsy support
- Confidence and communication
- Down syndrome support
- Dyscalculia support
- Dyspraxia and DCD support
- Emotional and behavioural support
- Gifted and twice-exceptional support
- Hearing impairment support
- Intellectual disability support
- Learning coach and study skills
- Motor development support
- Non-verbal child support
- One-to-one school support
- Selective mutism support
- Speech delay support
- Visual processing support
Questions to ask any provider
Bring this list to any first conversation, with us or with anyone else. Providers who answer plainly, including the uncomfortable questions, are the ones to trust with the rest.
- What are your qualifications, and which professional body registers or licenses your work?
- What exactly will you do with my child, and what sits outside your scope?
- How do you record progress, and how will we see it?
- How do you coordinate with our school, with our permission?
- What are your safeguarding policies for sessions at home or in school?
- What happens if the arrangement is not working?
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